"Every person has a train of thought on……" — Joseph Fort Newton
"Every person has a train of thought on which they travel when they are alone. The dignity and nobility of their life, as well as their happiness depend upon the direction in which that train is going, the baggage it carries and the scenery through which it travels."
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Joseph Fort Newton
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13 Quotes by Joseph Fort Newton
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A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the…
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Love is lost in immensities; it comes in simple, gentle ways.
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Each lodge is an oasis if equality and good will in a desert of strife, working to wield mankind into…
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Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but…
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Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue, and furnishes…
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Masonry was not made to divide men, but to unite them, leaving each man free to think his own thoughts…
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More than an institution, more than a tradition, more than a society, Masonry is one of the forms of Divine…
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To be happy is easy enough if we give ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving, No self centered person,…
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Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose, these are the things…
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We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens…
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Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart.
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As some of us prefer to put it, Masonry is not a religion but Religionnot a church but a worship,…
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
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